City of Spades (Twentieth Century Classics) - Softcover

MacInnes, Colin

 
9780749001162: City of Spades (Twentieth Century Classics)

Synopsis

London, 1957. Victoria Station is awash with boat trains discharging hopeful black immigrants into a cold and alien England. And when Montgomery Pew, an Assistant Welfare Officer in the Colonial Department, meets Johnny Fortune from Lagos, the meeting of minds and races takes a surprising turn.

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Product Description

A novel set in the years around 1957 when hopeful immigrants beagn to struggle with the cold and alien land of the UK. Set in the transformation of the Uk to Post colonial England. Softback intact and clean and undamaged . Pages have a little age related browning.

Review

His perspective on the era when Persil really was thought to wash whiter was unique. His essays, novels and broadcasts sounded as though Orwell had let down his hair. "

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